While it's true that investors, entrepreneurs, corporations, etc. have a vested interest in AI to the tune of trillions of dollars, the impulse to dismiss this as 90% hype (as the author does) is insane.
We're only three years into this, and we have:
- LLMs with grad student-level competency in everything
- Multimodality with complex understanding of photography and technical documents
- Image generators that can generate high-quality photos, in any style, with just a text description
- Song generators that make pretty decent music and video generators that aren't half bad
- Excellent developer tooling & autocomplete; very competent code generation
This is still early and the foundations are still being laid. Imagine where we'll be in 10 years, assuming even a linear growth rate in capabilities.
Think of what the internet is today, and its permanence in everything, and where it was just 30 years ago.
By all means, resist the hype - but don't go so far in the other direction that your head is in the sand.